Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-02-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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JAMES NJ. TEAGARDEN, of Kansas City, is
50 years old. lie was married in Knox
county. O., in 1885, and on his golden wedding
day he brought suit for a divorce, which mas
| been granted. His wife is TO, ana hao ue j,
| serted ham. When the divorce was granted
| the old man bowed his head in his henos anu
wept.
ONE of gang OF Ice cutters near Mount
Carmel, Ill.,, cut out a block OF ice on three
sides and then laid saw on 1t, remsrAlnS
Some fool VIII 90 10 pick up that saw, anu
! in he'll CO." He proved to be prophes. Ior
forge ng his trick few moments later ne
| himself stepped on the ice cake ana went
| down in seven feet of water.
THERE is genuine case of pearls before
swine at MERGED, Cal, At that point the San
| JOAQUIN river is very low, and in many places
| the river bed and the bottom of the large
sloughs are covered with fresh-water mus
| sells. Pearls of fair color are sometimes 1ouho
| In these bivalves. At present droves OF hogs
| are eating the mussels, pearls ana all. Inc
| pork of the pearl-fed swine is not ut all palat"
\ able.
| WILLIAM G. LEE, OF Upper Alton, No..
| was at dinner the other day with his wife and
| a grandchild when there came terrific clap
| OF thunder, following g ming hash, ana
| the old man fell dead. A big elm near the
| house was shattered. and thirty nlnc panes
of glass broken In the house, but as there were
no evidences that the bolt entered the room.
cussion.
A BUFFALO photographer says that he
reads the newspapers carefully for accounts
of fires. explosions, wrecks and the like,
and whenever any such disaster occurs he
goes out with the landscape camera and
makes negative of the scene of the catastro-
phe. Some time later he prints PROOF ana
mails it to the persons financially interested.
An order for one or more photographs at
good price invariably follows.
WESTERN NEWSPAPERS are printing pic
lures of two hands, each holding five cards.
The left hand has a jack. ace and nine of
clubs, and ace and ten of spades; the right the
jack OF spades, the king queen and ten of
clubs. and the ace of diamonds. These repre-
sent two euchre hands, clubs being trumps.
The problem is, (Which hand wins?" The
question seems an interesting one, though
which hand leads is not Indicated.
MRS. LANGTRY has been telling OF some of
the freaks of Joa quin Miller, when the poet
of the Sierras was at the height of his notorie-
ty in London. He wrote poem in her honor
and called it "The Lily" few days after
its publication Miller approached Mrs. Lang
try at a large reception, and, after paying his
respects, bowed himself backward out of the
room. and as he reiterated strewed rose leaves,
which he had crammed in his trousers pOck
cts, on the floor. At that time Miller, she
says, appeared in public in a red flannel shirt
and top boots.
WHEN Andrew D. White was a student In
Germany he attended the lectures of Won
Ranke, the historian. In recent article Mr..
White says of Ranke: "He had habit of be-
coming so absorbed in his subject as to slip
down in his char, holding his finger up to-
ward the ceiling, and then, with his eyes
fastened on the tip of it. go mumhling through
a kind of rhapsody, which most of my Ger
man fellow students confessed they could not
! understand. 1t was cOmical sight-half a
| dozen students crOwding around his desk
| listening to the Professor as priests might
| listen to the sibyl on her tripod, the otner
| students being scattered through the room in
| various stages of Encouragement"
A WASHINGTON correspondent says: az
hear that Mrs. Kate Chase Sprauge, who is
| at her old home called Edgewoo near Wa h
ington. is engaged in writing her memoirs.
| She had opportunities of acquaintance wi tn
| the public men of her time that ought to
make such work from her pen great addi-
| tiOn to the literature of the country. Men
| like Lincoln, sumner, Stanton. Trumbul,
| Gen. Scott, Greeley and all the mighty host
| of the war epoch passed her as it were in re-
| view. Mrs. Chase has fallen into a habit
| lately of talking quietly about her personal
| affairs with friends in Washington. Some
facts have thus come to my knowledge, the
statement of which ia likely to surprise the
public. Among other things it is said
that on his deathbed Gov. Chase
| entrusted the charge of his uaughter's affairs
including the management of that portion of
|
Conkling. The management could scarcely
have been placed in more inexperienced
hands, and has proved so disastrous that to-
| day Mrs, Chase is almost pennless and a
large portion of her income has been swept
| away. The investment of her money by Sena-
tor Conkling was made under circumstances
which caused him to feel under a moral obi
cation to rep, ace the amount and for number
of years be supplied the amount of income
which was lost from his own resources. But
gradually these payments were stopped, and
10 n lasA fIoff ,fal 1ra1r
10 be q lawsuit and some sensational develop
ments as to these financial matter,
$50 Stanley has headed another African
expedition" said Col. Tom Ochiltree the
other day. SIT is sixteen or seventeen yeari
now since Stanley came to England after find
ing Livingstone. In connection with his com
ing to London Ned Sothern, Steve Fiske ant
myself perpPtrated, perhaps. the most gikan
, | tic practical joke in all history. / was a hum
bic instrument for good IN the proceedings
1t was the united genius of Sothern and Fisk
which conceived the plan and put il in ira in
for execution. 1t came about in this way
When 1t became known that Stanley was OIL
the Continent en- route TO London the idea o
a great dinner under the auspices of the Roya
Geographical Society was suggested an
rapidly took shape. Everything was ar
ranged for the affair, when dispatch ar
rived that Stanley could not be in Londoi
for three days. What was to be done? w
determined TO have the dinner anyway. Fisk
came to me in hot haste. Did l know any
thing about Stanleys books? Yes | had reat
> every line Of them. Had 7 read his recen
newspaper letters? had. Them said Fiske
you must be Stanley for this performance
only Eiske was to represent the preslden
of the Geographical Society. The cast wa
completed and the dinner was given. The rep
resentatives of the press were there, and ever,
detail was attended to. At the proper time
a toast was proposed to the guest of the even.
ing, the great explorer Stanley, and | re-
spOnded. / talked for nearly an hour, and the
people at the dinner table followed my story
of finding Livingstone with rapt attention
The little Frenchm1n who kept the hote
where the dinner was given brought his chill.
| dren for stanley to pat them on the head
/ The greatest enthuslasm prevailed and Wher
| came out was cheered TO the echo. stan
ner wasn't marker to the one we gave"
THE days OF Jenersonian simplicity appear
to have passed away from Washington. Ii
was said that when the new administration
came in things would be changed. The AFRO
gance and assumption Of the naughty minded
Republican officials were to be succeeded Dy
the simple and plain manners of those who
were fresh from the people. The Republican
| precedent of social hummety Is rigIdly ad-
hered to by ~Aey officials and even adj
ditions are made tssesSo. Ten years ago q
| liveried coachman or fo6Sr-.n was novelty
in Washington. TIE officials who employed
them FIRST were howled at as aristocrats and
imitators of the fashions OF Europe. To-day
there Ia not an Official who has money enough
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